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I think this is expected. When you upload an attachment it will be attached to the post. When nothing is changed it's an auto-draft. So the image will be attached to an auto-draft. Auto-drafts aren't public. The post status of an attachment is inherit, means it's non-public too.

The same happens, when you upload an image to a non-public post, like a pending post. A user which isn't logged in can't see the attachment too.

Still confused here. Err... You are drawing an analogy between what is supposed to be publicly viewable vs. publicly inaccessible. While I don't disagree with that information, it is inconsistent with the bug I'm reporting. I think we need a matrix to explain this:

Thinking through it a bit, it seems to me that there's a base issue of why attachments get attached to auto drafts that are no longer accessible to edit in the admin, except from the "Uploaded to" column on the media list table. We can hide the link, but that doesn't change the weirdness of having an "Auto Draft" post that doesn't show up in the posts list table.